Two millennia ago, Mencius declared that profit was a bad thing. Describe the two opposing views on the question of money versus morality. Which do you think better describes Chinese culture as you know it?

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Introduction

Two millennia ago, Mencius declared that profit was a bad thing. Describe the two opposing views on the question of money versus morality. Which do you think better describes Chinese culture as you know it? According to the conversation of Mencius and the King Hui of Liang, it was quite obvious telling that Mencius believed that a person's motivation was what mattered. The best specific example of Mencius' stress on the importance of motives is the idea of profit. He was highly suspicious of anything done with the goal of profit in mind. He also believed that money and morality should not go together in name, since there must exist an area of where you would lose 'benevolence' of the sake of money. ...read more.

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He vigorously opposed righteousness to utility, advantages, and profit. He wanted to overcome the "way of a despot," or the way of force, by the "kingly way," or the way of moral power. Therefore, I personally think that Morality is one important element in the Chinese culture from many years ago until now. However, this is only the 'image' that Chinese people want to create and to maintain. Deep down, profits make them forget about the most basic of 'morality'. In real life, I seldom find the motto of morality stemming firming inside the soul of Chinese people. Nowadays, we see many tragedies happen in Hong Kong and in mainland China; most cases are about financial problems in a family as they seem to be having a hard time for living. ...read more.

Conclusion

The reason behind is that when people become richer, their brains are washed away by money. They do not think anything else in their life is important even their family. They choose to have an affair, one night stand etc, just to show that they have the ability to be involved in those kinds of activities. The worst thing is that "profit" can take away one's esteem, principle and even dreams. To me, to have a better standard of living for oneself and family is important, but money can not buy Morality and happiness. Asian people should try to improve their sensitiveness to their "living" surrounding such as, family, the world, society, children and elderly people, instead of over-emphasizing the power of money. ...read more.

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Said system is also concerned with the generation of profits. Profits are solely monetary gains in excess of the necessary. Production of goods is not necessarily related to profits. Further, quality of a product does not necessarily mean more profits.

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